1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comBen "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/yahtzeecroshaw/Valve's Making Up Half-Life Along the Way - The Escapistrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="3iXq9PQJPf"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-making-up-half-life-along-the-way/">Valve’s Making Up <i>Half-Life</i> Along the Way</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-making-up-half-life-along-the-way/embed/#?secret=3iXq9PQJPf" width="600" height="338" title="“Valve’s Making Up <i>Half-Life</i> Along the Way” — The Escapist" data-secret="3iXq9PQJPf" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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As I said in the Half-Life review, the use of non-intrusive unexplained blink-and-you-miss-it details to tell a story comes with several advantages, most notably giving the player a sense of being caught up in something far bigger than themselves, but what it also does is leave ample room for interpretation, not just for the audience, but for the writer. The story of Half-Life is basically made up as it goes along, but because so much of it is left ambiguous they don’t even need to retcon anything. That’s the beauty of it. For example, much has been wondered about the […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/24/24334.png